Remarks by John Svilarich
26 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“No staff updates. I think we took care of them earlier.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. Council Member School-Large. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a couple of quick things, unlike most of my colleagues. That was a jab on purpose. A reminder that rescheduled car show is this Saturday. from two to seven. And then on Sunday is the second annual walk and roll where Leadbetter Road is closed. And you can tour, people can tour the Camp Curry or the Johnson Farm and also just run down the road. So both good events.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Sep 8, 2026
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“I overlooked one thing I wanted to tell everybody about because it happens before our next meeting. On the 20th, it's Race to Cure ALD. And until I met Terry Weiner, who served on our former government committee, I met her at a separate event and found out. I learned a little bit about this event for 10-year-old sons, this disease. It's an incurable cancer or infection. No, no cure for 10 year old son suffers from it. They're holding a run, walk and gather play event at get together farm, which you wouldn't might know is john Spencer's business. So just a heads up, you can find it it's if you…”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Sep 8, 2026
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“It's also a walk. A 5K run or a one-mile walk.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, with that, we will close this meeting.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Sep 8, 2026
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“Council members will urge. Help me make sure I've got this clear. If we approve this tonight, that gives them the authority to try to advance it. Council still has a final say over it. It's back to correct.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“Just could feel on their part. They may not get to 66%, right?”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“case i buy a lot yeah we'll take the taxes we need some members savari thank you robert thank you ellen i i know i've ordered some questions that you you touched on many of them today i'm very leery of the quote unquote french drains and it's very not specific on the plat drawing it says that when we use when we annex in the canvas they'll take it And I have enough anecdotal experience with undefined French drains. I don't know if they're identified. I don't know if that means everyone on every rock fence and one that a neighbor put in. I'm not saying I'm against considering this, but I think…”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“One more question, and maybe this is for finance. Long term, is this a, you know, you said a couple hundred thousand dollars initially would probably be our revenue from this. Does it continue to build and go on in perpetuity?”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“Thank you. Excuse me. Go ahead. Chief, do you get many, many calls that you have to respond to, even though that's the county?”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“Mayor Mrakas, I will say that. Mayor Mrakas, Since I have a lot of interest stormwater facilities have watched the county on that facility over the years that they did a rehab on it a couple years ago did a very nice job that they continue to do maintenance on it, so I think it'll be a. I mean, it's still a liability, but it's not one of those that has been abandoned. You know, it has dead car parts in it and stuff like that. So it's not a very big one either. I wish some of mine were that small. Okay. Thank you.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“So anyway, thank the developer for hanging in there.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“Mayor, I move to direct the city attorney to draft an ordinance for council's consideration at the September 21st, 2026 City Council regular meeting.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“You did a good job on that. I mean, seriously. You brought up some points that...”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“Council member, Sean. My understanding or belief was that, If it was passed, that mayor would serve out his term as mayor because the former government wouldn't change until the following January.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“We did multiples with the RFA, didn't we? Multiple town halls?”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Aug 17, 2026
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“Chris, how do we account for Lackamas Park or William Clark Park? I mean, those are regional parks, but especially Lackamas is considered a campus park.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Jul 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Chris, good information. Great. Great to know where we stand, plenty of the numbers, but this last page, the last item, staffing, I think you're very understated. I've been to a lot of meetings where you remind, generally remind people that you, 20% of the admin were in the higher department. I don't think we want to hire professionals like that to be admin. And I think we really need to talk about finding some level of staffing to do that because if he's doing 20% of it, the rest of them are doing the other 80%. And is that what they should be doing? I don't think so. So…”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Jul 6, 2026
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“It's got to be a day in history today that you bring us”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Jul 6, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for this good information. I want to be clear though on the examples of utility taxes. We're currently at 2%, but if we go to three, we don't generate, we just generate the difference between those two numbers, right?”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Jul 6, 2026
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“So- We don't pick up a lot of money by one point or even two points. Right. Okay, thank you.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Jul 6, 2026
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“There's two hands up. I wasn't sure who was.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Jul 6, 2026
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“Do you want to go? Oh no, I was, I just, I didn't see her. I saw her raise her hand and I got, that's why, that's why. Yeah.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Jul 6, 2026
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“has to be submitted December 26th. Okay. So then you've got time to get into those. If the council approves it, it'd have to be submitted for ballot.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Jul 6, 2026
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“And I really think we need to hear from the people out there.”
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR · Jul 6, 2026